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  • noun Alternative spelling of half brother.

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Examples

  • She had received a call a few minutes earlier from her halfbrother, John.

    This Family of Mine VICTORIA GOTTI 2009

  • I call you my halfbrother because you in your soberer otiumic moments remind me deeply of my natural saywhen brothel in feed, hop and jollity, S.H. Devitt, that benighted irismaimed, who is tearly belaboured by Sydney and Alibany. —

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Q there's skepticism that this person is his halfbrother, is that true?

    Press Briefing By Dee Dee Myers ITY National Archives 1993

  • John Hargreaves, eight, and his halfbrother Jordan Swift, 14, died after they became trapped in a top-floor bedroom while Jordan's 19-year-old sister, Carly, also died after she dashed back into the house in the hope of saving the boys.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • A banker†™ s banker, Mr. Sarkozy, the halfbrother of the French president, brokered transactions as joint global head of

    DealBook 2008

  • A banker†™ s banker, Mr. Sarkozy, the halfbrother of the French president, brokered transactions as joint global head of

    DealBook 2008

  • Why was the internet buzzing with bloggers saying they always knew he was the same strain of scum as his halfbrother who murdered a black teenager?

    mirror.co.uk - Home 2008

  • A banker†™ s banker, Mr. Sarkozy, the halfbrother of the French president, brokered transactions as joint global head of

    DealBook 2008

  • A banker†™ s banker, Mr. Sarkozy, the halfbrother of the French president, brokered transactions as joint global head of

    DealBook 2008

  • A banker†™ s banker, Mr. Sarkozy, the halfbrother of the French president, brokered transactions as joint global head of

    DealBook 2008

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